Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#322

This is one of two lucky shots that I managed to get of this little House Sparrow. She and several others were flitting in and out of the bushes where I was standing and she landed on this branch for just a second or two. I always enjoy photographing House Sparrows, though the main place I seem to see them is when I go to the Calgary Zoo. Taken on 16 April 2013. Just when we had been fooled into thinking that spring had finally arrived, guess what is in our weather forecast -close to 1 mm of rain from this afternoon to tomorrow evening and close to 1 cm of snow from this afternoon to tomorrow evening. Any snow is not likely to settle, thank goodness. Temperature is 5C, windchill 2C this morning and, of course, no sign of the sun.

This dainty little Common Redpoll landed on a fence post in Weaselhead on 18 February 2013. When I usually see them, they are either flying fast or half hidden by a tangle of tiny branches, so this was a lucky shot.

I bought a tiny bunch of these striped Gerbera flowers yesterday. One of my daughters phoned and two hours later, I realized that I hadn't put these flowers in water. They looked very miserable by this morning, so my photos are of rather wilted flowers. Thanks, Suzie, for your suggestion of cutting a flower right down and placing it in a bowl of water, which is what you see here. I couldn't wait long enough to see if it might revive a little, as the sky darkened and it looked like the forecast snow was approaching. The light from my kitchen window was quickly disappearing - think I got this just in time.